Equity

— “Equity” is lucky to have Anna Gunn as the lead but I still found the message in this sluggish, alpha-female film a little confusing. Gunn an ambitious Wall Street investment banker surrounded by wolves and hitting the glass ceiling. Her frustration builds throughout the film as she works on an uneven playing field and must choose between truth and her job. She rightfully looses faith in her boss, her boyfriend, and even the sisterhood. Scheming and unethical men are nothing new in film, but do women now have to take on the worst attributes of male power players? Issues of greed and power have been covered pretty well in “Wall Street” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” and, although this puts an interesting feminist slant on it and I’m glad I saw it, it left me unsatisfied with a script that doesn’t progress satisfactorily and some slightly off editing.

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[2016. 100 min. Directed by Meera Menon. Starring Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, and Sarah Megan Thomas.]
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/04/equity-review-financial-thriller-anna-gunn-james-purefoy